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by Cheryl Avery,Mona Holmlund

Author: Cheryl Avery,Mona Holmlund
Subcategory: Social Sciences
Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division (September 4, 2010)
Pages: 240 pages
Category: Politics
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Better Off Forgetting? offers a reappraisal of archives and a look at the challenges they face in a time when . bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Better Off Forgetting? offers a reappraisal of archives and a look at the challenges they face in a time when issues of freedom of information, privacy, technology, and digitization are increasingly important. The contributors argue that archives are essential to contemporary debates about public policy and make a case for more status, funding, and influence within public bureaucracies.

CHERYL AVERY and MONA HOLMLUND. We are all archivists. It is difficult to paint an accurate picture of public funding for culture in Canada. Part of the difficulty lies in comparing funding between libraries, museums, and archives.

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Throughout Canada, provincial, federal, and municipal archives exist to house the records we produce. The timely, serious, and passionate essays in Better Off Forgetting? succeed in pointing out that archives are essential for many contemporary debates about public policy. Ken Rasmussen, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina.

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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Week 4 - Archives and Records Management Programs, Institutions and Profession Atherton, Jay. "From Life Cycle to Continuum: Some Thoughts on the Records ManagementArchives Relationship. Archivaria 21 (Winter 1985-86): 43-51. le/view/11233/12172 Bastian, Jeannette and Elizabeth Yakel.

Essays on Archives, Public Policy, and Collective Memory. by Mona Holmlund and Cheryl Avery.

Throughout Canada, provincial, federal, and municipal archives exist to house the records we produce. Some conceive of these institutions as old and staid, suggesting that archives are somehow trapped in the past. But archives are more than resources for professional scholars and interested individuals. With an increasing emphasis on transparency in government and public institutions, archives have become essential tools for accountability.

Better Off Forgetting? offers a reappraisal of archives and a look at the challenges they face in a time when issues of freedom of information, privacy, technology, and digitization are increasingly important. The contributors argue that archives are essential to contemporary debates about public policy and make a case for more status, funding, and influence within public bureaucracies. While stimulating debate about our rapidly changing information environment, Better Off Forgetting? focuses on the continuing role of archives in gathering and preserving our collective memory.